I feel similar. The markets costing resources to store is nicely thematic, but I find them too expensive to be worth using. Other cards that store for free are just as powerful so I end up always focussing on those. Occasionally a market will be of use, but it's rare.

The advanced bonus that gives VPs for upgrade market levels makes it more useful, of course.

The large market has been a point of contention for me and I have fallen on both sides. Where I sit now is it is an amazing tool for certain shuffles. but most of the time I use it round one maybe and then never again. Its adaptation is nice that you can choose a path but the end result can be frustrating since as you say it is both expensive and inflexible. I have had it suggested to ad vp to this, however, the design was for these to be a hard choice between utility and points. I will agree the utility is low for the cost. Making the upgrade cost cheaper would be a decent approach since it still would have a big cost in turns. But I feel the last state is not as versatile as the small market. So I would almost rather see something like 3f/3w/3s. Basically a wild that can be used for 3 of any kind and you pay in 2 of any kind? Thoughts?

Sounds interesting. I still think it's a very situational card though, and in my play last night, I checked how often I used it. Answer: 0 times. And I used the standard Market once. After about round 4, I'd upgraded most of the resource-giving cards such that Storing the standard Market was only worth it if I happened to need that resource at the time, and I never wanted to pay the cost to Store the large market as I always had enough of what it otherwise provided, and it would effectively be a swap of resources which I didn't need.

The wild does sound better, as it gives you a lot more flexibility to get the resource(s) you may need at a specific time. It does very much depend when the Markets come up though. In my game last night, they were both together, at the very back of the deck, so I rarely had anything I was 'saving up' for that warranted Storing them.

In general, I prefer to keep hold of the resources I have rather than pay them to Store or Rotate/Flip the Market. But that could just be my play style...

In my first three games I almost totally ignored the markets and got 36-35-34 points. Quite ok I think. At this point the markets didn't seem very interesting to me, particulary because of the costs.

Yesterday I wanted to try something out and played two games in which I stored every recource I could, and upgraded or flipped every card as soon as it was possible.In the first game I included the markets and got 18 points. In my second game I ignored the markets and got 24 points.This gave me the feeling that the markets are obstructing the game in some way.

reading the posts above, I think I will like the Markets better if they have Wild recources.

In my first three games I almost totally ignored the markets and got 36-35-34 points. Quite ok I think.

If you're averaging mid-30s, that's more than ok! I think of mid-20s as good and 30+ as a really good game, so repeatedly getting those kind of scores is quite impressive. Go you!

Thanks.My "quite ok"was a bit false modesty. Sorry for that. But I started with 36 and then it started going down, so I'll have to see if I can hold on to this mid 30 averaging......Only the future will tell.

I have only played 2 games so far and I have seen a good bit about the Large Market. Maybe I am missing something but I don't see the Large Market card in my deck. There is only one Market card. Sorry for being confused!

I have only played 2 games so far and I have seen a good bit about the Large Market. Maybe I am missing something but I don't see the Large Market card in my deck. There is only one Market card. Sorry for being confused!

I have only played 2 games so far and I have seen a good bit about the Large Market. Maybe I am missing something but I don't see the Large Market card in my deck. There is only one Market card. Sorry for being confused!